Customs Traditions category: 898 books
Dans la campagne bretonne
Étude sur les métiers, les habitudes et les travers des pays bretons
Language: French
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Extrait : "L'âme du campagnard breton est un sanctuaire fermé que l'œil du profane pénètre difficilement. Il faut l'avoir fréquenté longtemps, pour pouvoir le deviner. Comme la nature grise qui l'enveloppe, elle est mélancolique et réservée. La langue, les habitudes de localisme, la méfiance...
by Auguste Vacquerie, Ligaran
Language: French
Release Date: January 22, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: January 22, 2016
Extrait : "Le roi de Castille don Pèdre était un fier prince. Un jour il crut avoir à se plaindre de ses alliés de Grenade ; il invita Abou-Saïd et les émirs à une fête. Lorsqu'ils arrivèrent, on les saisit, on les attacha à des poteaux et on les tua à coups de javeline."À PROPOS DES ÉDITIONS...
by Alfred C. Haddon
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
The Torres Straits separates Australia from Papua New Guinea left untouched by European hands until the 18th Century. It has a rich mythology weaving Papuan and Aboriginal traits. A collection of moral tales and creation myths. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's...
Death in Asia
from India to Mongolia
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
Learning How to Die Can Teach Us How to Live
All of the world's religions refer to death in some way. Everyone is somewhat familiar with stories about where we go or what happens to us after death. From an early age, we have all heard stories of heaven or hell or some other version of paradise....
Identity, Hybridity and Cultural Home
Chinese Migrants and Diaspora in Multicultural Societies
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
The Chinese have been one of the oldest and largest ethnic communities across the world with well over 35 million people living overseas. Despite their relatively large cultural distance from the host countries, and the ordeals faced by generations of Chinese immigrants due to stereotypes, prejudice,...
The Stories Clothes Tell
Voices of Working-Class Japan
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Spanning decades of research, this compelling social history tells the stories of ordinary people in modern Japan. Tatsuichi Horikiri spent a lifetime searching out old items of clothing—ranging from everyday kimono, work clothes, uniforms, and futons to actor’s costumes, diapers, hats, aprons,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Globalization and international economic governance offer unprecedented opportunities for cultural exchange. Foreign direct investments can promote cultural diversity and provide the funds needed to locate, recover and preserve cultural heritage. Nonetheless, globalization and international economic...
by Henryk Flakierski
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
This is the second volume in the author's ongoing inquiry into the extent of income inequality in the East European socialist countries and the effect of market-oriented reforms on patterns of income distribution. Although there has been remarkably little empirical research on this question (in part...
Feminism, Culture and Embodied Practice
The Rhetorics of Comparison
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2010
Within both feminist theory and popular culture, establishing similarities between embodied practices rooted in different cultural and geo-political contexts (e.g. ‘African’ female genital cutting and ‘Western’ cosmetic surgery) has become increasingly common as a means of countering cultural...
Culture Works
Space, Value, and Mobility Across the Neoliberal Americas
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
Culture Works addresses and critiques an important dimension of the “work of culture,” an argument made by enthusiasts of creative economies that culture contributes to the GDP, employment, social cohesion, and other forms of neoliberal development. While culture does make important contributions...
National Identity
Theory and Research
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
National identity has been the subject of much controversy and debate. Some have even suggested dropping the concept entirely. One group, Essentialists, argue that national identity is fixed, cultural, based on birth and ancestry. Another viewpoint is posited by Postmodernists who argue that national...
The Cultural Capital of Asian American Studies
Autonomy and Representation in the University
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Originating in the 1968 student-led strike at San Francisco State University, Asian American Studies was founded as a result of student and community protests that sought to make education more accessible and relevant. While members of the Asian American communities initially served on the departmental...
by P. K. Bhowmick
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2002
This book shows the gradual changing conditions of the customary law of the Austric speaking tribal people of Frontier Bengal. Due to socio-political changes their customary laws are expected to change. All these factors have been critically explained including the ethnographic account of the tribal...
Food and Foodways in Asia
Resource, Tradition and Cooking
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2007
Food is an important cultural marker of identity in contemporary Asian societies, and can provide a medium for the understanding of social relations, family and kinship, class and consumption, gender ideology, and cultural symbolism. However, a truly comprehensive view of food cannot neglect the politics...